Bradley Wiggins will probably win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award
tomorrow night. The bookmakers, at least, have him as strong favourite. What
follows here is not an explanation of why he should win it, more a
reflection of why he is worthy of it.

The “personality” aspect of the BBC award is always confusing, but if 2012 has
shown the wider world that Wiggins does sideburns and soundbites, it also
showed his personality as a sportsman — and that is more interesting.

January

In rewinding through Annus Wiggo, we have to start with this. It comes
from the